What is Ultrance?

Ultrance is a comprehensive API management platform tailored for API providers seeking to streamline and grow their API products. The platform enables users to monetize APIs by connecting their own Stripe accounts and supports various billing options, including subscriptions, usage-based, and pre-paid credits. Ultrance maximizes control over payment infrastructure, offering robust access control, usage limiting, and a full suite of security tools to protect and scale your APIs as your user base expands.

With advanced real-time analytics, Ultrance delivers insights into user behavior, performance data, and usage patterns. The user-friendly developer portal empowers clients to independently manage API keys, view documentation, track billing, and analyze performance, all while supporting custom domains and branding. The platform frees organizations from vendor lock-in, ensuring ownership of billing and user data while minimizing infrastructure maintenance costs and maximizing developer efficiency.

Features

API Monetization: Connect your own Stripe account to enable subscriptions, usage-based, and pre-paid credit billing.
Access Control & Usage Limiting: Define and manage usage limits, access tiers, and API keys with self-service tools.
Advanced Analytics: Real-time analytics for tracking API usage patterns, engagement metrics, and performance data.
Developer Portal: Intuitive, branded portal for users to create API keys, view documentation, manage billing, and track usage.
Custom Domain and Branding: Personalize portals with your own domain and branding options.
Automated Emails & Alerts: Notify users about product updates and usage thresholds.
High-Performance Architecture: Global distribution ensures low latency and rapid response times.
Request Logging: Detailed request logs for monitoring all API activity.
Freedom from Vendor Lock-In: Maintain full control and ownership over billing and user data.
Flexible Signup Methods: Allow users to sign up using Google, Github, or Email.

Use Cases

Managing and monetizing public and private APIs for software businesses.
Enabling secure API access and scalable usage limiting for startups and SaaS providers.
Offering a user-friendly developer portal to onboard and manage API consumers.
Analyzing API usage patterns and performance for data-driven decisions.
Providing customizable payment options and billing infrastructures for API products.
Automating alerts and notifications for API consumers based on usage or account changes.

FAQs

Which plan is right for me?

The Starter plan is suited for testing and small projects, the Pro plan is tailored for established API businesses, and the Enterprise plan is designed for large-scale API operations with custom requirements.
How do monthly requests work?

Each plan defines a monthly request limit, which determines how many API calls can be made each month. Upgrading your plan increases this limit.
What happens when I reach my monthly request limit?

When you reach your allotted monthly requests, your API access may be capped until you upgrade your plan to accommodate more requests.
How does the transaction fee work?

Ultrance applies a transaction fee based on your subscription plan for payments processed through the platform.
Does Ultrance charge for failed API requests?

No, failed API requests do not count towards your transaction fees.